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Last Updated: Dec 03, 2001 
With the renewed IT focus on disaster recovery and business continuance planning, we thought it made sense to provide you with an updated collection of related resources -- both from searchStorage and around the Web. You'll find ...
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(02 Dec 2001)

Enterprise Storage Group Founder and Senior Analyst Steve Duplessie shares his insights on recent U.S. events and what they should mean to today's storage administrator. Along with some general rules-of-thumb for disaster recovery planning, Duplessie also describes a few storage vendor offerings to consider when beefing up your company's own DR and business continuance (BC) plans.

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NEWS:
>> Webcast: Disaster recovery best practices (Damian Walch, Comdisco) (Storage Decisions 2001) 27 Sep 2001
>> Webcast: Backup management strategies (Mike Karp, Enterprise Management Associates) (Storage Decisions 2001) 28 Sep 2001
>> Storage Decisions 2001 Presentation Slides (Storage Decisions 2001) 26 Sep 2001
>> Storage Decisions 2001: Users not panicking over disaster recovery plans (SearchStorage) 28 Sep 2001
>> Q&A: Storage vendors struggle with customer demand after terrorist attacks (SearchStorage) 18 Sep 2001
>> Storage management conference (TechTarget) 24 Oct 2001
>> Tape vendors set up data recovery hotline/consortium (InfoStor) 20 Sep 2001
>> Protecting data in a disaster (Boston Globe) 18 Sep 2001
>> Veritas on top of backup/recovery market in 2000 (SearchStorage) 24 Apr 2001
LINKS:
>> Best Web Links-->Administrative Tools and Strategies-->Disaster/data recovery
>> Best Web Links-->Administrative Tools and Strategies-->Backup
ADVICE:
>> Do You Have a Disaster Recovery Plan?
TIP :It does little good to have a carefully thought out system of backing up data if there is no plan in case of a catastrophe.
>> Disaster Recovery in a SAN Environment
CHATS :Computer Associates, QLogic, Quantum|ATL, and XIOtech will teach you how to assess your current DR needs and put together a ...
>> Backup and restore
ASK THE EXPERTS :

Hello,

What do you think about EMC's Celerra product?

The big topic today is how to backup and restore ...

>> Place your tapes on schedule
TIP :"How-to" advice on putting rhyme and reason to your tape backups
>> DataCore AIM, A low-cost, flexible solution for asynchronous mirroring for Backup & Disaster Recovery
CHATS :Implement disaster recovery and other applications requiring long-distance mirroring in a revolutionary and cost-effective ...
>> Managed storage benchmark
ASK THE EXPERTS :What is a benchmark cost to manage storage, in a $/GB format?
>> SQL2000 availability and recovery
ASK THE EXPERTS :We are trying to provide highly available, quickly recoverable SQL2000 databases on a W2K advanced server. We are using MSCS ...
>> Availability: ensuring failure-free SSP service
TIP :The importance of checking and re-checking your SSP's backup/recovery plan.
>> Interchange standards for backups
TIP :Test the system before you have to do remote backup recovery.
>> Extreme measures for offsite storage
TIP :How much should you spend on offsite backup? A lot depends on where you're located and what type of business you operate.
>> Interchange standards for backups
TIP :Test the system before you have to do remote backup recovery.
>> Three types of restore on Windows 2000
TIP :Rick Cook examines the three different ways of restoring replicated data in Windows 2000.
>> Make sure you can support NAS backup
TIP :Are your NAS hardware devices and storage software compatible?
>> Exchange backup with TimeFinder
TIP :Some solutions for conducting offline backups of Exchange databases
>> Ease migration, consolidation
TIP :Using tape-copy software can allow you to accomplish a number of otherwise difficult tasks.
>> Journaling vs. scoreboarding
TIP :Discussion of two different methods of making sure that data backup is reliable.
>> Keeping data within the SAN
ASK THE EXPERTS :

I'm evaluating SAN solutions for my shop. Compaq tells me they have a SAN solution (the MA8800) that includes an ...

>> Traveling data during backup
ASK THE EXPERTS :In a SAN environment where you have a server, centralized disk and tape, how does data travel during backup of a server with ...
>> Traveling data during backup, Part II
ASK THE EXPERTS :

Hi, Marc,

According to what you mentioned in the answer to the question posed on October 2, 2001 "Traveling data ...

>> Backup best practices
ASK THE EXPERTS :Does a "best practice" exist for backup strategies? In the case that a particular applications is mirrored, how often should ...
BOOKS:
>> Disaster Recovery Planning: Strategies for Protecting Critical Information Assets Price: $ 48.99
The most complete guide to data protection, disaster recovery avoidance, and disaster recovery tools, techniques, and ...
>> Blueprints for High Availability: Designing Resilient Distributed Systems Price: $ 47.49
blueprints, disciplines, and processes for assessing risks of a distributed system, assigning costs and selecting appropriate ...

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